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Learn about current phishing techniques, notable campaigns and attacks, what to watch out for 'in the wild', and more.

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May 3, 2019 Eric Howes

Exploiting Google on the Cheap

By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. So, maybe you're a bad guy who doesn't have fancy code monkeys who can cook up an exploit that effectively converts Google into a phishing ...

May 3, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

New Phishing Campaign From 'FBI Director Wray' is Hysterical

Our friend Larry Abrams who runs the bleepingcomputer site had something highly entertaining: "We regularly write about phishing emails at BleepingComputer.com in order to warn our ...

May 3, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Social Media Phishing Attacks Up More Than 70 Percent

Social media phishing, primarily on Facebook and Instagram, has seen a 74.7 percent increase in the first quarter of 2019. A new report on the current phishing landscape from predictive ...

April 30, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Brunswick Church Falls For Phishing Scam Of Almost $2 Million

Staff at St. Ambrose Roman Catholic Church in Brunswick say the church was scammed out of nearly $2 million. The church said a phishing email led it to believe that a construction firm ...

April 26, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Cryptojacking Phishing Attacks Target Enterprises With NSA-Linked Exploits

Summary: Researchers at Symantec are tracking a cryptojacking campaign that —for now—seems mostly to affect businesses in China. They're calling the campaign "Beapy," and the worm ...

April 25, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

PDFs Return as Phishbait

The use of malware-laden PDF email attachments has spiked in recent months, internet security company SonicWall has found. Over the course of 2018, SonicWall detected 47,000 new attack ...

April 25, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Scott County Schools victim of $3.7 million CEO Fraud Phishing Scam

GEORGETOWN, Ky. (WKYT) - Scott County Schools has announced the district is a victim of a multi-million dollar online CEO fraud scam.

April 24, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

[BREAKING NEWS] US Supreme Court Curbs Class Action Lawsuits Caused By W-2 Phishing Fraud

BREAKING NEWS: The upshot: This case made it all the way to the Supreme Court and sets a new precedent. A phished employee sent out 1,300 confidential employee W-2 data.

April 24, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

[Heads up] Sneaky Phishing Attacks Exploit Legitimate Services & Platforms to Fly Below Your AV's Radar

By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. Over the last few months, we have seen a rising trend of the bad guys using legitimate services—mainly file hosting platforms, but also ...

April 24, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Phishing Emails Will Always Get Through

Attackers have proven their ability to adapt to improved security measures, and organizations should never assume they’re safe from phishing emails, says Paul Gillin at SiliconANGLE.

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